SAP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

SAP
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring knowledge or experience of SAP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAP over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SAP SE.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 50 46
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 +53
Contract jobs citing SAP 87 75 96
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.62% 4.37% 4.43%
As % of the Vendors category 9.06% 9.74% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 34 72
10th Percentile £445 £400 £432
25th Percentile £532 £466 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £531 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.46% -
75th Percentile £750 £625 £723
90th Percentile £855 £758 £849
Central London median daily rate £601 £525 £588
% change year-on-year +14.38% -10.64% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £61.25 £146.25
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £147.50
Median % change year-on-year - -57.63% -
75th Percentile - £63.75 £148.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £58.92 £62.50 £147.50
% change year-on-year -5.73% -57.63% -

All Vendors
City of London

SAP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 960 770 933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.95% 44.87% 43.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 470 681
10th Percentile £356 £315 £338
25th Percentile £436 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -1.79% -2.61%
75th Percentile £668 £677 £683
90th Percentile £756 £752 £788
Central London median daily rate £538 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -0.46% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 8
10th Percentile - £22.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £25.25 £15.19
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.00 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +42.53% -56.50%
75th Percentile £25.25 £53.75 £24.56
90th Percentile £42.48 £100.00 £63.53
Central London median hourly rate £22.71 £29.07 £21.75
% change year-on-year -21.87% +33.66% -42.00%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

SAP job vacancy trend in the City of London

SAP
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in the City of London

SAP
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

SAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.15%) Anypoint
1 1 (1.15%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 24 (27.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (6.90%) SAP ERP
3 5 (5.75%) SAP HCM
4 3 (3.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (2.30%) iTrent
5 2 (2.30%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (2.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (2.30%) SAP BRIM
5 2 (2.30%) SAP EWM
5 2 (2.30%) SAP MM
5 2 (2.30%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (1.15%) NetSuite
6 1 (1.15%) SAP FI-AR
6 1 (1.15%) SAP GRC
6 1 (1.15%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (1.15%) SAP PM
6 1 (1.15%) SAP QM
6 1 (1.15%) SAP R/3
6 1 (1.15%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 11 (12.64%) SuccessFactors
2 7 (8.05%) Azure
3 6 (6.90%) Power Platform
4 5 (5.75%) AWS
5 3 (3.45%) Boomi
5 3 (3.45%) OCI
5 3 (3.45%) Serverless
6 2 (2.30%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (2.30%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.30%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.30%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.30%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.30%) Matillion
6 2 (2.30%) SaaS
6 2 (2.30%) Textract
6 2 (2.30%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.75%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.60%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (4.60%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (4.60%) Power BI
3 2 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.30%) CockroachDB
3 2 (2.30%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.30%) Metadata
3 2 (2.30%) SAP Data Services
3 2 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.15%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (1.15%) GIS
4 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.15%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.15%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.15%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.15%) ER Studio
1 1 (1.15%) JIRA
General
1 25 (28.74%) Finance
2 23 (26.44%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.05%) Billing
5 5 (5.75%) Banking
5 5 (5.75%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.60%) Law
6 4 (4.60%) Local Government
7 3 (3.45%) Legal
8 2 (2.30%) General Ledger
8 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.30%) Retail
8 2 (2.30%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.15%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 20 (22.99%) Architect
2 14 (16.09%) Consultant
3 12 (13.79%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (12.64%) SAP Consultant
5 9 (10.34%) Analyst
5 9 (10.34%) Lead
6 5 (5.75%) Functional Consultant
6 5 (5.75%) Project Manager
6 5 (5.75%) SAP Functional Consultant
6 5 (5.75%) SAP Manager
7 4 (4.60%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Integration Architect
8 3 (3.45%) Oracle Consultant
8 3 (3.45%) Report Analyst
8 3 (3.45%) SAP Architect
8 3 (3.45%) Transformation Analyst
9 2 (2.30%) Administrator
9 2 (2.30%) Business Analyst
9 2 (2.30%) SAP Trainer
9 2 (2.30%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.79%) Middleware
2 11 (12.64%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (5.75%) XML
4 4 (4.60%) JSON
4 4 (4.60%) REST
5 3 (3.45%) OAuth
5 3 (3.45%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (2.30%) boto
6 2 (2.30%) EDI
6 2 (2.30%) IDoc
6 2 (2.30%) JWT
6 2 (2.30%) NumPy
6 2 (2.30%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.30%) Pandas
6 2 (2.30%) SAML
6 2 (2.30%) SOAP
7 1 (1.15%) JDBC
7 1 (1.15%) LDAP
7 1 (1.15%) XML Schema
7 1 (1.15%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.75%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.60%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.30%) FMCG
4 2 (2.30%) IoT
4 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.30%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.30%) Replication
5 1 (1.15%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.15%) Life Science
5 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.15%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.15%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (31.03%) ERP
2 26 (29.89%) Migration
3 20 (22.99%) Data Migration
4 17 (19.54%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (14.94%) User Acceptance Testing
6 11 (12.64%) ETL
6 11 (12.64%) Integration Patterns
7 9 (10.34%) Data Modelling
7 9 (10.34%) Roadmaps
7 9 (10.34%) Translating Business Requirements
8 8 (9.20%) Data Governance
8 8 (9.20%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (9.20%) Validation
9 7 (8.05%) Event-Driven
9 7 (8.05%) Project Management
9 7 (8.05%) Risk Management
9 7 (8.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (6.90%) Analytics
10 6 (6.90%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (6.90%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.49%) SQL
2 3 (3.45%) ABAP
2 3 (3.45%) Python
3 1 (1.15%) C#
3 1 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.15%) Java
3 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.60%) PMP
2 4 (4.60%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.45%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.30%) CIPD
5 1 (1.15%) CISM
5 1 (1.15%) CISSP
5 1 (1.15%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.15%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.20%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.05%) GDPR
3 5 (5.75%) QA
4 4 (4.60%) GAAP
5 3 (3.45%) PMO
5 3 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (2.30%) GRC
7 1 (1.15%) Basel III
7 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.15%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.15%) IFRS
7 1 (1.15%) IFRS 9
7 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.15%) IAG
Vendors
1 25 (28.74%) Oracle
2 11 (12.64%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.05%) Workday
4 6 (6.90%) Ariba
5 3 (3.45%) Informatica
5 3 (3.45%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.30%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.30%) Databricks
6 2 (2.30%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.15%) Concur
7 1 (1.15%) ESRI
7 1 (1.15%) Google
7 1 (1.15%) IFS
7 1 (1.15%) Kronos
7 1 (1.15%) OpenText
7 1 (1.15%) Planon
7 1 (1.15%) Qualtrics
7 1 (1.15%) Talend